Европска деца оптужују – “The Children of Europe Accuse” – a vehement propaganda publication issued in occupied Yugoslavia around 1943, portraying the crimes of the Allies – primarily Britain and the United States, as deliberately and indiscriminately bombing civilian populations, especially children, all under the auspices of international Jewry. In contrast, Adolf Hitler is presented as “humane”, careful not to harm anyone who is not a soldier. Yugoslavia, C. 1943. In Serbian. Extremely rare.
The booklet describes deliberate and massive Allied bombings targeting civilian populations, residential buildings, and schools, mainly in the city of Antwerp in Belgium, as well as in France, Germany, and other countries. It is filled with shocking depictions of children’s corpses, destroyed schools, and desperate attempts by parents to identify their children who were killed or burned to death due to the massive Allied bombings. “April 4, 1943, in beautiful Paris, an air raid alert, followed immediately by falling bombs… over fifty dead and countless wounded; in other parts of the city, more than 400 killed. Yet the British and Americans proudly report: ‘Clear weather, targets bombed with strength and precision.’” According to the writer, the Americans had been planning for years a future war focused on the destruction of civilians, especially women and children, and are now executing this plan in the current world war. “For them, war is not an armed struggle between soldiers, but an act of annihilation against other peoples.” It is claimed that the British and Americans unjustifiably bomb civilian residential areas out of terrorist motives or indiscriminate revenge, disregarding accepted norms of humane warfare. In contrast, Nazi Germany is portrayed as an entity that consistently strives to uphold “humane” rules of war and restricts itself solely to military targets. The booklet further argues that Britain’s history is rife with colonial crimes: killings in Ireland, massacres in Tasmania, starvation during Cromwell’s time, concentration camps during the Boer War, and more. Likewise, the United States is accused of “genocide” against Native Americans and the destruction of entire cultures. Throughout the booklet, both in text and in photographs, children are used as a moral and emotional symbol to provoke outrage and to depict the West as a brutal aggressor. Adolf Hitler is presented as a “humanist, ” a moral warrior who opposes the killing of civilians or the distortion of warfare into the harming of innocents, and as a moral man who tried to persuade the world through disarmament talks in Geneva but was rejected.
The booklet continues by citing, allegedly, excerpts from American radio broadcasts, such as: “October 25, 1940 – words of British Air Marshal Joubert: ‘We’re tired of bombing military targets – now we will bomb populated areas and kill German civilians.’ March 8, 1943 – broadcast from an American radio station in Schenectady: ‘The bombing of German cities is not psychological warfare, but a carefully planned and systematically executed campaign of annihilation.’ October 31, 1940 – a shocking quote from an Anglican priest: ‘Destroy the Cologne Cathedral, bomb St. Peter’s Church in Rome, wipe out men, women, and children.’ In contrast, quotes are presented from a speech delivered by Adolf Hitler on May 21, 1935: “The Reich Chancellor said in one of his speeches: ‘The Reich government believes that just as the use of dumdum bullets was once forbidden and generally avoided in practice, so too can the use of certain other types of weapons be banned, and thereby effectively prevented. This applies to all types of weapons that cause death and destruction not necessarily to the fighting soldiers, but to women and children who do not take part in the combat.’”
It is further claimed that as early as 1936, Churchill sought to destroy Germany simply because it was growing stronger. A conspiracy is alleged regarding a so-called “World Food Committee” that would dominate the globe by restricting access to food. The booklet reports on Theodore Kaufman, author of a marginal 1941 pamphlet that called for the “sterilization of Germans, ” and falsely presents this as though it were an official Allied policy accompanied by antisemitic insinuations regarding the “chosen people.”
The American attacks on Japan are described as the deliberate extermination of innocent civilians. General Doolittle, who commanded the first raid on Tokyo (1942), is referred to as a “gangster” who wished to annihilate the entire Japanese population. The “post-war peace” is portrayed as a plan to solidify American and British control through unchecked aerial supremacy. The booklet warns: “If you surrender – your children will become slaves of the new world.” It declares: “This is the wish of the children of Europe” (То је жеља европске деце), as if the children themselves were crying out: “Save us from Bolshevism.” The booklet presents a grim forecast should the Allies win the war, particularly for the children of Europe, “who are currently the favored targets of Churchill and Roosevelt’s bombers”, predicting they would become helpless in a new world ruled by international Jewry, whose diabolical plan is being executed by the Allied powers. The booklet is accompanied throughout by photographs of European children wounded, injured, and killed, purportedly as a result of Allied bombings.
Extremely rare. The booklet does not appear in the WorldCat global library catalog.
31 [2] pages. Good condition.
